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The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-16

regiment In another camp about two miles
away, and he was sent to the guard house
until his assertions could he verified or dis
proved. l was officer of the day at camp
that day, and that is how came to learn so
many OF the particulars of the affair l am
relating. 1t was in the camp of Wiscon-
sin regiment that the spy, who gave his
name as George Swift, was arrested. He
had come there ostensibly to visit friends,
but some of the boys had seen him slyly
taking notes, and he had asked such queS-
lions as no private Federal soldier would
have any use for. 1t was pretty generally
understood that the Confederates were using
every exertion to secure knowledge of
Sherman's strength and movements and the
boys had no sooner got the idea that the
stranger was spy than they gave infor-
nation to me and put him under arrest l
saw glance that he was of Southern birth.
That was not so much against him, for at
that time we had plenty of Tennessee and
kentucky men with us.
What command do you belong toF' l
asked.
"The --th Illinois, he replied.
asked what brigade and division, who
was his Captain and various other things,
and he returned what seemed to be straight
answers to every question. When l asked
who he had come to visit in the Wisconsin
regiment he was lame. He mentioned the
name of a man no one had ever heard of. 1t
was on this point alone that held him. A
messenger was at once sent after the Illinois
Captain named, and in about an hour he
appeared. The supposed spy was taken to
the tent of the Brigade General, and as soon
as brought face to face with the Captain he
saluted and said:
Capt. Morton, the people here seem
to think | am Confederate spy"
''And who are youp queried the Captain,
astonished
do you ask that?" reproachfully in
quired the man. "Who should l be but
George Swift of your own company?"
you can't be. never saw you before in
my life" ,,,,
The two men looked at each other as if
doubling their own senses, and the General
asked of Swift:
How long have you been with his COM
panyr
-Four months, sir. came down as re-
cruit from Pekin."
"Who is your Orderly Sergeant"
''Sergt. White, sir"
who are your commissioned officersw
capt. Morton, First Lieut. Green and
Lieut.. Davis. The latter is home on a fur
Tough"
How many men in the company~
Fifty eight, sir"
"Who are your tent mates2"
Oscar jackson, Thomas Parker and
John Pridgeon."
"Well, Captain" queried the General, as
he turned to Capt. Morton.
The Captain was clean beat. He was
dead sure that no such man belonged to his
company, and yet the suspect had an
swered every question as straight as a
string.
I'm stake my life that never saw this
man BEFORE" the Captain finally answered,
name"
The spy was ordered to strip to his shirt,
and for the first time his GOODNESS seemed to
desert him. He reproached the Captain for
permitting this indignity, but slowly dis
robed. In one of his boot legs was pocket,
and in this pocket we found paper bearing
figures as follows:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-16
g. CHRIS MURPHY, 1866
OFFICIAL.
QUARANTINE NOTICE.
OFFICE HEALTH OFFICER,

SAVANNAH, Ga, Aug. 20, 1851. I
From and after this date, the city ordinance
which specifies the Quarantine requirements to
be observed at the port of Savannah, Ga, will
be most rigidly enforced.
Merchants and all other parties Interested
will be supplied with printed copies of the Quar-
antine Ordinance upon application to office of
Health Officer, and are requested to keep copy
OF this publication.
From and after this date and until further no.
tice all steamships and vessels from or having
Mexico, West Indies. the Bermudas, Italy,
Sicily. Malta, Marseilles and the Guinea
coast Of Africa; direct, or via Ameri-
can ports, will be subjected to Quaran-
tine detention and be treated as from infected
or suspected ports or localities, viz: Section 9,
Quarantine Regulations. Captains Of such
vessels will have to remain at the Quarantine
Station until their vessels are relieved.
All steamers and vessels from foreign ports
not included above, direct or via American
ports, whether seeking chartered or otherwise,
VIII be required TO remain In quarantine until
boarded and passed by the Quarantine Oficer
Neither the cuptnias nor any one on board Of
such Uesseis toR be aiiotced 10 come to the city
or land until the vessels are inspected aud
passed bD the Qtordnff,se Officer.
AS ports or localities not herein enumerated
are reported unhealthy to the Sanitary Authori-
ties, Quarantine restrictions against same viii
be enforced without further publication.
Thequarantine regulation requiring the flying
OF the Quarantine GdQ on vessels subjected TO
detention or Inspection tcst be rtgfdln enforced.
Notice Is hereby given that the Quarantine
0cer is instructed not 10 deliver letters 10 ves-
sells which are not subjected 20 Quarantine de-
tention, unless the name OF conslgnee and state
ment that the vessel IL ordered 20 some other
port appears upon the face OF the envelope
This order Is made necessary In consequences OF
the enormous bulk OF drumming letters sent %
the station for vessels which are 70 arrive.
Ship chambers are Informed that provisions
In largo quantity cannot be- received al the
Quarantine station, unless for vessels ordered
from this port, and II must then DO sent down
by the tug boat at this time when vessel IA 10 lie
towod 70 sea. '. 4. MCFARLAND, N. D.,
Aeaill. a1lecr.
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A MAN WITH A MEMORY.
The Courage and coolness Of a Con
fedorato Spy.

just before sherman advanced on his
eeorgia campaign a man supposed to be a
Confederate spy, was one day arrested Ia a
Union camp He was la Federal uniform,
bit ~ look and language were uBmlstaka-
W southern. do clplnad " belong " -
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The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
EXCHANGE NOTES.

Our deepest sympathies go out
to Bro. Zeyely, of the Richie DEM
ocrat, in his sore affection. A de-
voted wife and loving mother, de-
parted, leaves place no earthly
friends can fill.
Being away from home last week
we failed to notice the death OF
Brother McGlothiin, senior editor
of the Ravenswood Neaos.
Our departed brother was highly
esteemed by the State press, and
all who knew him, and we join our
brethren in rendering all sympa-
thy with the sorrowing family and
friends.
Our Marshall county friends are
fortunate in the speedy change of
the Moundsville Sickle to other
hands. The saloon stuff that las
been dumped out to its patrons late
ly must have been exceedingly dis
tasteful.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
HURRICANE CHEER.
Amendment Club at Bethel.
HURRICANE, w. VA,
December 7, 1887. I

ED. FREEMAN:
The temperance interest is grow
ing slowly, but we trust surely.
When that noble white ribboner,
Mrs. Jennie McClurkin, was here
it was after much persuading that
four or five ladies were induced to
organize the w. c. T. U. Its pres
ent number is twenty. and it's
members are those who will help
keep up the cry, The Saloon must
90. Besides the w. c. T. u, the
|. o. G. T. meets every week and is
increasing in numbers and inter
est. The first Saturday in Deem
Der was Memorial Day, in honor of
The Honorable j. B. Finch, the
National To-. G. T. leader. The
one great draw back to the tenn per-
ance work here, is the so-called
temperance men who never say or
do anything for the cause they
profess to love. There has been a
Prohibition Amendment League
organized at Bethel, about four
miles from here. A Band of Hope
will be organized here soon.
Mr.. Editor, as you say, Mrs. Nc
Clurkin's letter from Nash Vile is
worth more than one years sub
scription to the FREEMAN. If after
a meeting like that in Nash vile
the sa.oonists don't fear and quake,
what will arouse them? When we
look over the field and see 80 many
Christian women at work, we need
not doubt but ere long we can say
with rejoicing, The Saloon is gone
What we need is to realize the sit
uation and then be ready to meet
the foe, and the victory is ours.
Yours for the cause,
0. II. CHAPMAN.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
Don't They Know What
Hurts Them?

Christian voters of Ohio is it not
time to stop and think? Here you
have been voting for the tax and
license system of the old parties
under the delusion that you were
going to crush the saloons. Now
the National Association of Liquor
Dealers in their recent convention
at Cincinnati declare that they
endorse the tax and license sys-
tenn" When liquor men indorse
the system which you have been
sustaining by your ballots, is it
not time for you to turn your gune
in some other direction These
liquor dealers declare that they are
opposed to Prohibition. Is not
this significant? Don't they know
what hurts them? Then why not
fall in line with the Prohibition
party and cast your ballot for what
you believe in and not what the
rum power believes in? -Herold &:
Resbyter.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
GOT TO CONE, AND THE
SOONER THE BETTER.
Senator Palmer Says 80.

That significant meeting of
Michigan Republicans, at Detroit,
is becoming more and more sig
nifcant. Senator Palmer has been
interviewed in reference tc the posi-
ton he took. We clip this much
of the interview:
what was your position, Sena-
tor Palmer ?"
TT was this: When you come to
point where the roads divide, and
there is a doubt as to which is the
more expedient, l am in favor of
taking the one that is the least
equivocal. l think that the Re
publican party in Michigan has
now got to the point where prohi-
bition ia the least equivocal posi-
ton on the temperance que ton.
| don't mean to say that we should
do this to placate the political pro
hibitionista, but because the liquor
men have thrown down the gaunt-
let, and it should be the policy of
the Republican party to take it up
and force the fighting"
"Would rot the high license pol
icy meet the issue equally well ?"
"Not in all cases. Probably in
cities it would be more effectual ;
in the rural districts not 30 much
So"
"Do you think the present time a
good one to bring up the subject on
the eve of Presidential election p
II do not think that that makes
any difference. When you have
made up your mind to adopt pol
icy that is the time to make i:
known. The fight has got to come,
and l think the sooner it is recog
nized the better"
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14

therefrom and for several counties
we heard emphatic affirmations that
since high license began, there
is more disorder, more crime, more
alarming drunkenness, than OBJ
tanned under the old system of
things. 1t might be we'll, before
the Republican leaders take up
high license as national means Of
party grace, for them to send a
commission to Minnesota in honest
search after facts.
The Repub licans here are in a
quandary. Their State majority has
dropped from 10000 to figures very
modest, indeed, and high license
does not seem to check this down
ward movement. In spite of 1T,
prohibition goes on. What shall
be done? They stand, these Min
nesota Republicans, on the precise
platform of the Iowa Democrats, as
touching temperance. II they go
farther after liquor votes, they
must lose all hope of retaining
temperance men; and if they
swing out for prohibition, square
and true, what will the national
party leaders do and say?
Greater uneasiness can be felt
nowhere than here, among old par
tisans. Does it betoken the ava.
lanche? A, A. HOPKINS.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
Deafness Can't be Cured

by local applications, as they can not reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure Deafness, and that is
by constitutional rem edies. Deafness caus-
ed by an inHamed condition OF the mucous
lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this
tube gets infiamed, you have rum bling
sound or imperfect hearing, and when II is
entirely closed Deafness is the result and
and this tube restored to It's normal condi-
ton, hearing will be destroyed forever mine
cases out OF ten are caused by catarrh,
which is nothing but an infiamed condi-
ton of the mucus surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness (caused by Catarrh)that we
can not cure by taking Halls Catarrh Cure
Send for circular free,
FIJI. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0
pE-Sold by Druggist, rs cents.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
these earnest women have abun-
dant success.-Huntington Argus.
A Live Question, Whether
We Will or No.

The old argument against wo-
men suffrage is, Women don't
want the ballot. The w. c. T. U.
at Nashville the other day voted
that they want the ballot. When
the represen tatives of 100000 of
the best women in the country
talk that way, it sort of knocks the
bottom out of the old argument.
Then the experiment in England
and in Canada, along the line of
permitting women to vote for GER
tain offices, is undeniably breaking
down great deal of prejudice in
high places" against this innova-
ton. In the near future it is GER
tain to be one of our very live ques-
tons, whether we will or no. The
Voice.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14

Temperance League Organ
lied I'm Wheeling.

We are glad to note the grind
Temperance meetings being held
under the very walls of the Liquor
stronghold of cur State. We clip
this report from Mondays Intells-
ge'acer;
Major Camps temperance meet
ings at the Capitol rink continue
to grow in interest and attendance.
There were two meetings held yes
terday at the rink, one, 3 80 p. m.
the other at 7 80 p. m. At both
meetings the attendance was large.
The meeting in the afternoon was
opened with prayer by Rev. DR..
Randolph. Major Camp spoke for
over An hour, and during the ad-
dress, when relating some pathetic
incidents of the past, many eyes
were wet with tears.
The meeting in the evening was
addressed by Capt. John Baggs anf
Maj. Camp. The former made a,
strong temperance speech, and was
often applauded during it's delivery.
The latter spoke for over an hour,
and was listened to attentively by
all who heard him. Often the au-
dience would show it's appreciation
as the speaker would tell humor-
Gus story, by applause with their
hands.
Among the characteristic utter
ances made by Major Camp yester-
day and last evening were the fol-
lowing:
The churches need to go for ward
they are the head and centre of the
forces of Almighty God to 90 forth
and rescue the perishing. Many of
you sing, "Stand up for jesus but
you would rather sing "Sit down,
sit down, for Jesus" wouldn't you?
A man that drinks liquor is
bound for the paradise of mud.
You can take comb with fine
teeth and scrape this world up and
down and down and up and you
can't scrape anything but what is
mean that belongs to liquor.
1t gives men a fictitious value
for everything. have seen them
stand up at the corner and say, II
am going to buy cattle ranch"
If a cattle ranch was for sale he
could not buy a shovel full OF dirt.
If you can't speak a good word
for the right side just keep mum.
There's time when silence is gold
en-.
Saturday evening non partisan
temperance league was organized,
with the following officers and COM
mittees: President, G., w. Akin
son Vice Presidents, G. w. Baggs,
F. II. Kasley, William Hastings,
William A. Wilson, II. Z. McGreg-
or, William Clemens, Alex Nor
rison, Walter Rineheart; Secretary,
j. M. Clouston; Treasurer, N. w.
Beck Soliciting Committee, Hugh
Sterling, J. M. Richards, N. w.
Beck, John Cowl, Isaac Stewart,
Val. Giesey. }. M, Richards is to
have full charge Of the music.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
w. C. 7. U. WORK.
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY
ABOUT 1T.
At New MartfnsviIle.

The New Martinsville w. G. T.
U. public meeting on Tuesday eve
ming was fairly well attended.
Presiding Elder McClung spoke
first, making a very interesting ad-
dress, urging the adoption of the
prohibitory amendmentin forcible,
eloquent language. He was fol.
lowed by Rev. D. s. Hammond in
an excellent speech, laudatory OF
the Union and its objects. Wetzel
Volunteer.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
Good Cheer for Guyam-
dOtte.

The Guyandotte w. c. T. U. held
mass meeting at the Baptist
church last Friday evening, for
the benefit of the colored people,
but they did not turn out we'll
There were addresses by Mrs. P.
Fl. Hoffman, Rev. W. A. Nicholas,
Mrs Ferguson, Professor Delay, Mrs
Womeldorf, and Rev. Archer. May
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14

Cadwallader & Loomis, the pho
tographers have dou bled their
force of skilled workmen for the
Xmas work. Call early and you
can get your photos in time.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
THE COMING AVALANCHE.
High License Cannot Stay 1t.

Prof. A. A. Hopkins attended
tho recent State Prohibition Con.
vention in Minnesota.
We clip these extracts from his
last letter:
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
Mrs. McClurkin at Fair
mont.

The audience assembled in the
NJ. E. Church last Friday night to
hear Mrs. McClurkin, was edited
and instructed by her able and IN
teresting address. Mrs. McClurkin
is pleasant and forcible talker,
and the points in her argument
we're well selected and logically
presented. She did not, as some
might suppose, confne herself to
the moral aspect Of this great ques-
ton, but handled it also with ref
erence to it's relation to social and
political economy. The revenue
phase of the question, which ia a
delusion and a snare to 30 many,
and upon which there is 80 much
false logic, was ably presented in
Mrs, McClurkin's address, and she
gave many incontestible reasons
Why society should deliver itself
from the body of this death-the
saloon. The audience was not
large, but we are told that it was
above the average Fairmont tenn
perance-meeting audience. If SO,
re ought to pray God for mighty
shaking among the dry bones in
this valley of vision.
~
The Loyal Legion work is most
enc ,uraging. The one under Miss
Jackson's Immediate supervision
has thirty mem bers, and that un-
der Miss Arnett's care, which
meets in Palatine, has fifty mem
bers.- Fairm,Ont Inde1
Heard From In Dakota.
We clip the following pertinent
questions to presidents of local
Unions from the FREEMAN, the Off
cial organ of the w. c. T. U. of
West Virginia. X
They are contained in an open
letter from the president of that
state, Mrs. Jane A. Johnson, and
we believe they are worthy the
careful and prayerful consideration
of every local president in Dakota.
Dakota Standard.
The freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1886-18??, 1887-12-14
Amendment Meeting At
Grafton.

The temperance meeting held at
the Baptist church last Tuesday
evening under the auspices of the
Grafton W. G. T. U. was a glad
some surprise to the majority of
the large audience who attended
and who had but vague idea of
what the exercises would be like.
The meeting was held by order
of the State Executive Committee
in the interest of the proposed
Amendment, and hence was made
as attractive and entertaining as
possible, the good ladies who had
it in charge sparing no trouble to
make it success. Select vocal and
instrumental music, recitations OF
poems and prose, declam ations, &c,
went to make up the excellent pro-
gram.-Grafton Eagle.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-21
Senator Evarts and Mark Twain.

Senator Evarts has undoubtedly pre-
sided over more banquets than any other
man in New York. His old fashioned
rolling collar and his finely plated shirt
bosom are familiar sights to all of the
walters at Delmonico's, the Hoffman or
the Brunswick. The urbane senator en-
joys good dinner and good company, and
with rare forbearance he never infiicts a
long speech upon his fellow diners. Even
his abnormal tendency to long and in
tricate sentences is curbed upon social
occasions. Mr., Evarts' special weakness
as a presiding officer is the interjecting of
facetious comments on the efforts of the
other speakers. He delights to diffuse
mirth and good fellowship, and his face
tiousness never has the sting of acerbity
Occasionally in attempting to score point
on fellow speaker he suffers the fate of
the boomerang thrower. An instance in
point occurred at the New England Society
dinner last winter. Mark Twain had just
finished an extraordinarily piquant ad-
dress when Mr.. Evarts arose, showed both
of his hands down into his trousers pockets
as is his habit, and laughingly remarked:
Doesn't it strike this company as little
unusual that a professional humorist
should be funny"
Mark Twain waited until the laughter
excited by this sally had subsided and then
drawled out: doesn't it strike this COM
pany as little unusual that lawyer
should have his hand in his own pocket?"
New York Times.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-21
Finding Rest in Gotham.

Distinguished men must find New
York restful, as SO many come here to live
after they have passed middle age and
been for years objects of interest in small
er places. Here even the great man is
one of a crowd. There are distinguished
soldiers, engineers, doctors, merchants,
writers, scientists who come to the me-
tropolis to spend the last years of their ex-
istence after the battle of life has been
fought and won elsewhere. Such men as
Gen. Grant, Henry Ward Beecher, Robert
C"i'ver, Benjamin H. Bristow, Whitelaw
Eg'l, Roscoe Conkling, with the whole
H0.ld from which to select, choose New
York as the most fitting and desirable
place for home. In any other city a
distinguished man is conspicuous, but
here he can walk the streets and attract
no attention, he can take a seat in street
car without being stared out of counte-
nance by all the other passengers, he can
enjoy life, for distinguished men are COM
mon on the streets, and the inhabitants
of New York IRE broad and cosmopolitan,
and believe in each man attending strictly
to his own business unmolested by all
others.-New York Cor. Cleveland
Leader
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-04-21
The Architect and the Evil One.

All over the north of Europe the
greatest aversion is felt to be the first to
enter a new building or go over a newly
built bridge. If to do this is not
thought everywhere and in all cases to
entail death, it is considered supremelv
unlucky. Several German legends are
connected with this superstition. The
reader, if he has been to AiX-la- Cha
pelle, has doubtless had the rift in the
great door pointed out to him, and has
been told how it came there. The
devil and the architect made a com
pact that the first should supply the
plans and the second gain the kudos;
and the DEVILS pay was to be the first
who crossed the threshold when the
church was built. When the building
was nearly complete the architects S
conscience smote him, and he confessed
the compact to the Bishop. "We'll do
him." said the prelate; that is to say,
he said something to this effect in
terms more appropriate to the century
in which he lived, aud to his high
ecclesiastical office. When the pro-
cession formed to enter the minister for
the conservation, the devil lurked in
ambush behind a pillar, and fixed his
wicked eye on fine fat and succulent
little chorister as his destined prey
But alas for his hopes! this fat little
boy had been given his instructions
and, as he neared the great door, looseC
the chain of wolf and sent it through
The Evil One uttered howl of rage
s1atched up the wolf, and rushed away
giving the door a kick as he passed i
that split the solid .oak.-The Cornlt1l
Magazine,